"Matt and I had been best friends since we were kids in the eighth grade, playing music and growing up together. Since then we have each pursued our separate musical careers, Matt as a symphonic percussionist and I as a solo guitarist.

"That night as I was playing on Jezebel I (one of the first really great Kasha guitars), Matt asked, 'Why don't we record something?' The only problem was, he didn't have any instruments.

"It turned out to not be a problem. He went to my kitchen and got out all the pots and pans he could find, and set them up by the Steelcase desk in my living room, which was put to good use. We set up the microphones and started playing. I imagine not everyone was as thrilled to hear what we were doing at 2:00 in the morning as we were, as evidenced perhaps by the sound of the passing police car which was the last thing we caught on tape.

"What we heard on the tape the next day made an impression that has stayed with us ever since. It was fun and light-hearted, with a sort of Spike Jones effect. It was just whatever we felt like playing.

"Sometimes I took the lead, sometimes Matt did. It was totally different from what we normally play, both of us being serious classical musicians. But people seemed to like what we'd done, and that's what got us started on this project. Welcome to our living room!"

Kurt Rodarmer
July, 1999

Kurt and Matt recorded this CD without rehearsal after nearly 20 years of playing apart. The music is spontaneous, lively and enjoyable, with a unique (and sometimes surprising) combination of instruments.

Listen for guitars, marimba, xylophone, bongos, assorted water fowl, Fisher-Price barnyard animals (US Patent No. 3,792,550), empty bottles, and somewhere in there you'll even hear the infamous Steelcase desk and police siren from the original recording of 1981.

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